Your entry must be made on-line via this website from Monday 2nd December 2024. You will receive an automated acknowledgement email on receipt of your entry. Please check that all the details of your entry are correct. Note that entries will close at 5pm on Friday 31st January 2025. All the associated submitted items must arrive at the Eisteddfod by the closing date: 5pm Friday 31st January 2025.

It costs £3 per item to enter.  

If you are from an Eisteddfod partnership school you will be invoiced the total amount after entry.

Otherwise please pay by bank transfer (sort code: 30-92-63, account number: 00091902, account name: Devizes Eisteddfod) as soon as you have made your entry.  Please use the Reference number you will be given on entry as the Payment Reference. Your entry will only be confirmed when payment has been received, when you should get an email confirming your payment and entry. If you do not get this confirmation email shortly after payment, then please contact us as something has gone amiss and we will investigate.

If you prefer to pay by cheque, please make it out to Devizes Eisteddfod and put the Reference number on the back of the cheque. Be sure to include your cheque when sending your items to the Eisteddfod. As above your entry will only be confirmed on receipt of payment.

If you are from an Eisteddfod partnership school, you will be contacted to arrange collection of your items from your school by a member of the Eisteddfod committee.

Otherwise you will need to send or deliver your items by 5pm on Friday 31st January 2025 to:

Mrs Claire Magill, c/o Devizes Books, Sidmouth Street, Devizes, SN10 1LD
(Monday to Saturday 9am-5pm).

In all cases, please ensure that each item is clearly marked with the child/student’s name, Eisteddfod class, and title of the work where appropriate.

The deadline for all entries is 5pm Friday 31st January 2025.  We are not able to accept any entries after this date. 

If, after entering on-line, you find you have any additional item(s) (perhaps from a newly-arrived member into your school class), then make a new entry for them on-line. It doesn't matter how many entries you make, they all get combined.

Schools/parents of winners and any runners-up will be notified by email by Friday 7th March 2025. All results will be available on the website on Friday 7th March 2025.

The adjudicators will give a completed comment sheet and certificate for every item received. For each Eisteddfod class, they will select a class winner who will receive a trophy.  In some classes there will also be runners-up who will each receive a medal.

All class winners and any runners-up will be invited to the Creative Arts Presentation which will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 20th March 2025 at the Town Hall in Devizes.  They will receive their awards from the adjudicators and be able to see their work on display.  This exhibition of displayed work will continue in the Town Hall throughout Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd March 2025.

All class winners’ items will be displayed, together with those from any runners-up.  Depending on available space, we may also be able to display some other work that the adjudicators were particularly impressed with.

All class winners and any runners-up, together with their parents or other family members, will be invited to attend the Creative Arts Presentation evening on Thursday 20th March 2025.  Anyone else may come to Devizes Library to see the displayed work on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd March 2025. (9.30 am to 4 pm)

If you are from an Eisteddfod partnership school, all your items will be delivered back to your school by a member of the Eisteddfod committee on Tuesday and Wednesday 25/26 March 2025.

Otherwise, items can be collected from Devizes Books, Sidmouth Street, Devizes, SN10 1LD (Monday to Saturday 9am-5pm) from Monday 24th March 2025. Items must be collected by Friday 4th April 2025. Any uncollected items will be destroyed.